dinsmore



(No Model.)

- E. W. DINSMORE. DISTRIBUTING BOTTLE.

No. 545,012. Patented Aug. 20, 1895.

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UNrrnn STATEsP'AT-ENT rnrcnl EDVARD XV. DISMORE, OF LYN N, MASSAOHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN H. BRACK, OF SAME PLACE.

DlsTRlBuTlNc-BOTTLE.

SPECIEICATION forrning part of Letters Patent No. 545,012, dated August 20, 1895, Application filetl October 20, 1894. Seria] Na. 526,431. (No model.)

Toall wwm it may concern: dftlcult to apply the samo were the end D2 Be it known .that I, EDWARD WELLINGTON of the stirrer arranged lower down or covered DINsMORE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex by'the cap B. and- State of Massachusetts, have invented The stirrer D within the salt-cellar A is 5 new and useful Improvements in Distribformed with aseries of agitating-arms DS and uting-Bottles, of which the following is a full, D4, of which the arm Dais preferably curved to clear, and exact description. conform to the inner surface of the salt-cellar The invention relates to storing-vessels and A, and it extends close to the inside thereof, sifters-such as table sprinkler-bottles conso that when the stirrer D is rotated the said [o taining salt or other substances, flour-sifters,` arm Da sweeps in the salt-cellar close to the/7 ma and like articles. wall thereof. The other arm D4 is bentt' The object of the invention is to provide cersweep nearer the middle of the salt-cellar A, tain new and useful improvements in sprinkand the upper end of the arm D3 is connected ler-bottles, sifters and other articles, whereby by an arm D5 with the end D2, the said .arm

r 5 the contents of the bottle or other vessel are D5 being arranged close to the under side of l stirred up, loosening the particles to permit the perforated top of the cap B, so that when 6 5 of readily sprinkling the contents of the botthejstirrer is rotated the said arm D5 sweeps tle through the perforated cap or bottom directly under the perforations in the cap to thereof. keep the same free for the exit of the poww zo The invention consists in certain parts and dered contents of the salt-cellar.

details and combinations of the same, as It will be seen that by the arrangement de- '70 will be hereinafter fully described, and then scribed the operator, taking hold of the saltpointed out in the claim. cellar, can readily turn the base or stand O, Reference is to be had to the accompanying so as to rotate the stirrer D within the salt- 25 drawings,formingapart of this specification, cellar A, or the said base may be held stain which similar letters of reference indicate tionary and the salt-cellar rotated on the corresponding parts in all the views. stirrer to accomplish the same ob;1`ect---that.`

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improveis, agitating the contents of the salt-cellar to ment as applied to ,a salt-cellar.4 Fig; 2 is a loosen the particles, so as to permit the same 30 sectional side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 to readily pass through the perforations in is a sectional plan view of the same on the the cap to the desired place. line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. etis a sectional side As illustrated in the modified form shown' elevation of a modified form of stirrer. in Fig. 4, the arm D6 of the stirrer, arranged The salt-cellar A, illustrated in the drawclose to the wall, is connected by a horizontal 3 5 ings, is provided with the usual perforated arm D with a trunnion D8, extending Verticap B and a base or stand O, carrying the callyandjournaledinaspiderorcrossE,formlower end D' of a stirrer D, extending within ing part of the neck-band, the upper end of the the bottle A and having its upper end D2 joursaid trunnion DB being providedlwlith a curv'ed naled in the center of the perforated cap B. arm D9, adapted to sweep under the perfo- 40 The lower end D' of the stirrerpasses through rated top of the cap to keep the perforations a central aperture in the bottom of the saltclear. By this arrangement the stirrer does oo cellar A to the inside thereof, and this lower not project through the cap, but is held in end D' is in axial lalign ment With the upper position by the said neck-band. end D2, and both ends D' D2 form the trun- It is evident that the stirrer may be con- 45 nions for the revoluble stirrer D. structed' with any desired number of arms The upper extremity D2 of the stirrer probent 01' otherwise arranged to agitate the cong 5 jects above the top of. the bottle through the tents of the bottle when the stirrer is rotated, cap B and forms a guide to permit of ready and hence I do not limit myself to the parapplication of the cap, as it would be very ticular construction of stirrer shown.

Having thus desci'ibed my invention, I fixed to the base, projecting and Operating 16 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters within the bottle and having trunnion like Patentportions journaled in the end beai'ings of the A condiment holder, substantially as debottle whereb'y to steady the same upon its ribed, consisting of the bottle having beai'- base, substantially as set forth.

ings in its upper and loWeI` ends, the base on EDWARD W. DINSMORE. which said bottle is mounted, such base pro- Witnesses: jeeting below the lower edge of the bottle and WALTER A. BROWN,

forming a stand therefor, and the stiri'er JOHN H. BRACK. 

